kilopascal wrote:
So, is their any indication as to whether they will appeal to the House of
> Lords?
I write here in full a column from today's Sunderland Echo:
The battle of the Metric Martyr's will carry on all the way to the house of Lords -
but only if people decide to help.
This is the message from Neil Herron, friend and spokesman for Sunderland's "martyr"
Steven Thoburn.
He says that despite yesterdays defeat for Mr Thoburn in the Appeal court, the pair
will now take their case to the House of Lords, the highest court in the land.
But that depends on donations from the public for their "fighting fund".
Mr Thoburn was appealing against a 12 month conditional discharge given to him in
April last year.
He was charged by Sunderland Council with using two sets of imperial scales, which did
not bear an official stamp, to sell bananas by the pound at his Southwick Market
Stall.
Bouyed up by donations to the fund, Mr Thoburn took the matter to the court of appeal,
but had the case thrown out yesterday.
Mr Herron, who now acts as spokesman for Mr Thoburn and the four other Metric Martyr's
from across the country, said: "We now need to have five minutes to gather our
thoughts .
"The judge has allowed a question to go to the House of Lords and we don't quite
understand the implications of that.
"But we're going to take this all the way to there. for the sake of this country, we
have to do this.
"We can't have Parliament over - ridden by this European Commission.
"If the funds are there, we'll fight this."
Despite their long-running battle against European legislation, Mr Herron has no
qualms about taking this to the European Court of Human Rights.
"We've entered the lion's den before to get our European of the Year awards and proved
a point." The former Park Lane Market trader added, "We're not scared to do so
again."
In addition to public support, actor Edward Fox, comedian John Cleese, singer Elaine
Page and former Lord Tebbit have all pledged support.
Regards,
Steve.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:17 PM
Subject: [USMA:18298] Re: metric martyrs
> 2002-02-19
>
> So, is their any indication as to whether they will appeal to the House of
> Lords? Since they continue to lose, can we ever expect them to concede and
> start obeying the laws?
>
> What may help prevent such acts from continuing would be for Britain to
> mandate that all digital scales be fully metric 100 %. New scales would be
> automatically metric and older ones that may be switchable, have the pounds
> function disabled the next time the trader either takes the scale in for
> repair, or for recertification.
>
> Also, all dual dimensioned analog scales should de-certify as soon as
> possible, as this allows for "cheating". There needs to be a plan to get
> all the scales in use to be digital and fully metric. Then, the traders
> will have no choice but to comply with the law.
>
> Now, it is time to tackle the road sign issue and the pub pints. Forward
> March!
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, 2002-02-19 02:57
> Subject: [USMA:18292] metric martyrs
>
>
> > How the BWMA and the UKIP must be raging and foaming at the mouth now. I
> > will have a look on their sites soon.
> >
> > Han
> >
>
